JavaScript. The Core: 2nd Edition

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This is the second edition of the JavaScript. The Core overview lecture, devoted to ECMAScript programming language and core components of its runtime system.

Note: see also Essentials of Interpretation course, where we build a programming language similar to JavaScript, from scratch.

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JavaScript. Array “extras” in detail.

This is an external article written specially for Opera software and placed on the Opera’s developer center website.

In this article we’ll look at the functionality made available by the new methods of array objects standardized in ECMA-262 5th edition (aka ES5). Most of the methods discussed below are higher-order (we’ll clarify this term shortly below), and related to functional programming. In addition, most of them have been added to different JavaScript implementations since version 1.6 (SpiderMonkey), although these were only standardized in ES5.
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JavaScript. Ядро.

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Обратите внимание: доступна обновленная вторая редакция данной статьи.

Данная обзорная лекция является обобщением того, что мы изучили в курсе “Тонкости ECMA-262-3“. Каждый раздел статьи содержит ссылки на соответствующие главы цикла ES3, который вы, в случае желания и интереса, можете рассмотреть подробно, получив более глубокие и детальные описания тем. Continue reading

JavaScript. The Core.

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Note: a new 2nd Edition of this article is available.

This note is an overview and summary of the “ECMA-262-3 in detail” series. Every section contains references to the appropriate matching chapters so you can read them to get a deeper understanding. Continue reading